Sandra Gordon-Salant Professor

Sandra Gordon-Salant, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Audiology at Northwestern University. She has served as Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters, and member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committees on Disability Determination for Individuals with Hearing Impairments and Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Determination. Her research interests include the effects of aging and hearing loss on auditory processes, as well as signal enhancement devices for hearing-impaired listeners. She has published over 70 articles and book chapters on the topic of age-related hearing loss and speech understanding problems of older people. She is the senior editor of the book, The Aging Auditory System. Dr. Gordon-Salant received the prestigious James Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology in 2009 and was elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2011. She also received the Al Kawana Award for outstanding contributions to research from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2013. Her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health since 1986.